“For Toyota, truck sales continue to soar,” said Bill Fay, Toyota division group vice president and general manager. “Sales momentum from March rolled into April pushing the industry to its best back-to-back monthly sales pace since fall of 2007.”

The Nissan group also managed to increase its sales, at an even bigger pace of 18% – reaching a record with 103,934 vehicles. The Nissan division managed the same 18.5% growth, with 94,764 sold cars.

“As the spring selling season kicked into high gear, Nissan maintained its strong momentum with our best-ever April sales and monthly sales records for important models like Altima, Rogue, Versa, LEAF and Juke,” said Fred Diaz, senior vice president for Nissan US.